Journal
BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 109, Issue -, Pages 82-100Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2016.09.016
Keywords
Thermal comfort; Thermal transients; Temperature drifts; Personalised comfort; Temperature zones; Thermal non-uniformities
Funding
- Dutch Technology Foundation STW [11854]
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) - Ministry of Economic Affairs
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The buildings sector, being a leading energy consumer, would need to lead in conservation efforts as well. There is a growing consensus that variability in indoor conditions can be acceptable to occupants, improve comfort perception, and lower building energy consumption. This work endeavours to scrutinise and summarise studies that examined human thermal and comfort perception to such variations in the indoor environment: spatial transients, non-uniformities, and temperature drifts. We also briefly discuss personalised comfort systems since they work on an occupant's micro-climate and create non uniformities in the indoors. Perusal of works done on effect of non-thermal factors on thermal comfort, point to the need for synchronizing the overall indoor environment's quality in terms of decor, air quality, lighting etc. - to improve occupant thermal comfort. Essence of the overall discussions come out to be that indoor thermal environment can be variable and still agreeable, implying existence of energy saving avenues, hitherto precluded from earnest consideration. (C) 2016 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license.
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